A partially randomised, controlled trial was performed to test the hypothesis that opiate exposed infants treated with diluted tincture of opium (DTO) and phenobarbital would have better ...

Necrotising enterocolitis is a serious disorder in preterm infants with a mortality of up to 60%. Therefore, early and precise diagnosis and rapid initiation of proper treatment are essential.

3 Department of Neonatology, Hubei Provincial Women and Children's Hospital, Wuhan, China 4 Department of Neonatology and Obstetrics, Huai'an Women and Children's Hospital, Huai'an, Jiangsu, China ...

Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China Correspondence to: Dr Ho Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Pamela ...

AIMS To examine the hypothesis that right to left shunting occurs mainly in the lungs rather than through the fetal channels in neonates. METHODS Thirty two term babies requiring over 70% oxygen had ...

Objective: To investigate the spectrum of organisms causing neonatal sepsis in Peshawar, Pakistan and to assess their sensitivity to various groups of drugs. Methods: Blood taken from newborn babies ...

Early hypophosphataemia and refeeding syndrome in extremely low birthweight babies and outcomes to 2 years of age: secondary cohort analysis from the ProVIDe trial ...

Correspondence to Dr Outi Aikio, Department of Children and Adolecents, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland; outi.aikio{at}ppshp.fi Objective To evaluate the long-term adverse reactions of ...

Cambridge University Department of Anaesthesia, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK Professor Jones, Department of Anaesthesia, Cambridge University, Level 4, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 ...

Randomised clinical trials show that two injections of corticosteroid into the mother before preterm delivery reduce respiratory distress syndrome, neonatal mortality, and intraventricular haemorrhage ...

Objective: To compare the perinatal characteristics, neonatal morbidity and mortality of preterm singletons, twins and triplets born at 22–31 weeks’ gestation and admitted to neonatal intensive care ...

3 Center for Pediatric Clinical Studies, University Children's Hospital of Tübingen, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany Correspondence to Dr Laila Lorenz, Department of Neonatology, University ...